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Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy

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747 points porridgeraisin | 2 comments | 29 Aug 25 11:29 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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superposeur ◴[29 Aug 25 14:16 UTC] No.45064455[source]▶
Everyone seems to be unsurprised by this move, but I’m genuinely shocked. What a shoot your own foot business decision. Google, evil though it be, doesn’t post the text of your gmails in its search results because who would consider using Gmail after that? This is the llm equivalent. Am I missing something?
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KoolKat23 ◴[29 Aug 25 14:27 UTC] No.45064592[source]▶
This data is useful for reinforcement learning. All the others do it.

And most importantly, you can just opt-out.

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1. superposeur ◴[29 Aug 25 14:36 UTC] No.45064705[source]▶
Ok, to be clear, let’s say I’m dumb and accidentally go with the default (I get the color of the opt out button wrong or something). As if there’s a “publish my private emails to the internet” default-on button in email. Then, I use it to edit a rec letter for student X, with my signature Y. (Yes I know this is dumb and I try changing names when editing but am sure some actual names may slip through.) A few months later the next model is released trained on the data. Student X asks Claude what Y would write in a rec letter about X. Such a button is a “wings stay on / wings fall off” button on a plane.
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2. franga2000 ◴[29 Aug 25 14:48 UTC] No.45064868[source]▶
You're severely overestimating the ability of the model to recall a single mostly uninteresting item from it's billions of input documents.